mango

CEFRA2

/ˈmæŋɡəʊ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A sweet tropical fruit with yellow flesh and a large stone.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.

Examples

  • I have never eaten a mango before.

  • The mango is the national fruit of several countries.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/
  • /ˈmaŋɡəw/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The fruit of the mango tree.

  2. A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.

  3. A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.

More examples

In context

  • Would you like mango, apples and papaya?

  • And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango.

  • In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Portuguese manga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa) / Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), possibly via Malay mangga, ultimately from Proto-South Dravidian *mām-kāy (“unripe mango”), a compound of *mām (“mango tree”) + *kāy (“unripe fruit”). First used for the fruit as early as the 1580s and the tree by the 1670s. The etymology of the -o ending is not certain.